Package: drawmap
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The drawmap(1) manpage says:
At the time this manual page was updated (August, 2001), various
DEM, DLG, and GNIS files were available for free download
by following appropriate links from http://mapping.usgs.gov/.
For some files, convenient graphical interfaces were available to
let you locate desired files by clicking on a map. Some DEM, DLG,
and GNIS files, and the GTOPO30 files too, were available
via FTP from edcftp.cr.usgs.gov, in the pub/data directory.
(In the case of GNIS files, there was simply a pointer to another
download site.) Access to the various files changes over time,
so you may have to do some searching to find what you want.
I found it difficult to locate these files using mapping.usgs.gov; the
only link I found was to "Earth Explorer", which wanted to charge me
$1.00 to download each DEM file, and announced that they would be
unavailable after 2006-01-02. The FTP server accepted my login but
closed the connection if I tried to list any files in pub/data.
I did some searching and wrote an updated paragraph with correct links:
--- drawmap.1.orig 2001-08-02 07:31:32.000000000 +0000
+++ drawmap.1 2005-12-16 03:53:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -217,16 +217,12 @@
latitude/longitude angles and surface distances is small.
.SH Introduction to the Different File Types
.PP
-At the time this manual page was updated (August, 2001), various DEM, DLG, and
GNIS files
-were available for free download
-by following appropriate links from http://mapping.usgs.gov/.
-For some files, convenient graphical interfaces were available to let
-you locate desired files by clicking on a map.
-Some DEM, DLG, and GNIS files, and the GTOPO30 files too, were available via
FTP
-from edcftp.cr.usgs.gov, in the pub/data directory.
-(In the case of GNIS files, there was simply a pointer to another download
site.)
-Access to the various files changes over time, so you may have to do some
searching to
-find what you want.
+At the time this manual page was updated (December 2005),
+various DEM, DLG, and GTOPO30 files were available for free download
+by following appropriate links from
+.IR http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/ .
+GNIS data could be downloaded from
+.IR http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ .
.PP
Ordinary DEM and DLG files (that is, non-SDTS and non-GTOPO30 DEM and DLG
files)
are in (gzip-compressed) ASCII text format,
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